308 research outputs found
Die Masse als Parasit in Alexander Kiellands Roman Jacob
No full textAlexander Kielland zeichnet in seinem letzten Roman Jacob (1891) von der Warte des kulturell- und geistig Überlegenen aus das Bild einer kranken, durchkapitalisierten Gesellschaft ohne Moral. Diese Diagnose präzisierend und kontextualisierend konzentriert sich der Aufsatz auf den Protagonisten des Romans: Tørres. Er soll als Personifikation jenes kollektiven Antagonisten gelesen werden, der im Elitendiskurs des späten 19. Jahrhunderts den »großen Menschen« gegenübersteht: die »Masse«. Die ökonomische wie soziale Gefahr, die von der Masse ausgeht, wird in Jacob vor allem über eine Bildsprache des Parasitären vermittelt. Tørres, so wird die Analyse zeigen, befällt immer größere Teile der Gesellschaft und schickt sich am Ende des Romans sogar an, über die Diegese hinauszuwachsen.Jacob (1891) is Alexander Kielland's last novel. From the perspective of a culturally and intellectually superior individual, it portrays a sick, thoroughly capitalistic society lacking any moral. The text specifies and contextualizes this diagnosis by focusing on the protagonist of the novel: Tørres. He is interpreted as the personification of the collective antagonist who stands in opposition to the »great man« in the elite discourse of the late 19th century: »the masses«. The economic and social danger posed by the masses is conveyed in Jacob primarily through a pictorial language of the parasitic. The author will show that Tørres is infecting more and more parts of the society, and, by the end of the novel, even threatens to grow beyond the diegesis
Suburbanization and amphibians: designed ecological solutions
No full textRegulations guiding land development around seasonal isolated wetlands disregard habitat requirements for specialized faunal inhabitants. This oversight needs to be addressed at multiple scales in order to sustain future seasonal pond inhabitants. In particular, pool-breeding amphibians are suffering worldwide decline and are susceptible to water quality, temperature, hydrology and watershed impacts. The complex aquatic-terrestrial lifecycle of amphibians
makes them sensitive to terrestrial habitat alterations and fragmentation. The temporal variation in hydroperiod within individual ponds and variation in
hydrology across ponds within a landscape create a stochastic system. In these systems amphibian populations likely function as metapopulations, and rely on juvenile dispersal and rescue effects to counter local extinction. Given the limited regulations at the local, state and federal level, maintaining amphibian breeding
populations will require efforts at the pond, migration corridor, upland habitat, watersheds and regional connectivity levels. Addressing these gaps requires
further basic research to expose hidden aspects of amphibian lifecycle patterns, in part due to their fossorial nature as well as the challenges of interpreting
metapopulation connectivity. Addressing the gaps also requires translating the ecological requirements into preservation tactics within the pressures of land
development, which poses substantial challenges. I utilized designed experiments, which serve as a hybrid research and planning approach, to navigate these complex circumstances. Here, I present a series of large-scale field experiments situated within a 500-hectare privately owned suburban development project located in Tuxedo, New York. The field experiments were implemented as part of the masterplanning process with the aim of exposing and
addressing several of these regulatory gaps from both a basic science and applied solutions perspective. A series of drift fence and pit-fall trap experiments provides data at the scale of individual breeding populations and their migration patterns to and from ponds. Larval density studies utilizing replicate enclosures evaluate the impact of within pond density versus variability of habitat quality across ponds. This analysis provides a bioassay of species performance teasing apart the presumed dominant effect of density versus variation across ponds. The results of this study indicate that physical and biotic pond scale factors have
a far greater effect on survival and fecundity than density. These results differ from the environmental consultant's evaluation of the same ponds and call into
question the current rapid assessment of pond habitat.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-237)by Alexander Jacob Felso
A Platform Penalty for News? How Social Media Context Can Alter Information Credibility Online
No full textFull author list: Alexander Agadjanian, Jacob Cruger, Sydney House, Annie Huang, Noah Kanter, Celeste Kearney, Junghye Kim, Isabelle Leonaitis, Brendan Nyhan, Sarah Petroni, Leonardo Placeres, Morgan Quental, Henry Sanford, Cameron Skaff, Jennifer Wu, Lillian Zhao
A Platform Penalty for News? How Social Media Context Can Alter Information Credibility Online
No full textFull author list: Alexander Agadjanian, Jacob Cruger, Sydney House, Annie Huang, Noah Kanter, Celeste Kearney, Junghye Kim, Isabelle Leonaitis, Brendan Nyhan, Sarah Petroni, Leonardo Placeres, Morgan Quental, Henry Sanford, Cameron Skaff, Jennifer Wu, Lillian Zhao
Le poète en personnes: mises en scène de soi et transformations de l’écriture chez Blaise Cendrars, Guillaume Apollinaire et Max Jacob
No full textThis dissertation examines the diversification of styles and representations of the poet in the work of Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire. The works studied extend from 1912 to 1919, the war-torn period during which these writers established their careers as initiators of the post-Symbolist avant-garde. Their work exhibits proliferating and contradictory presentations of the poet, often assigned to fictional speakers. By turns self-deprecating and self-glorifying, it displays disorienting shifts in style and technique, and various forms of textual reappropriation: pastiche or
parody, allusion or quotation. Consequently, these poets’ writing displays no single recognizable style, making self-presentation even more unstable. A poetics of self-display necessarily investigates the relationship of self to others, to collective entities such as a network of contributors to a literary journal, writers espousing a given style or trend, or society at large. These writers’ experiments with form take into account the forum of expression (books versus periodicals) as well as the
circumstances, whether those of world war or of literary polemic. This esthetic of ostentatious self-presentation runs counter to a crucial trend in modern and contemporary poetry in which the figure of the poet tends to disappear. Mallarmé had first announced this “disappearance of the poet,” followed by Paul Valéry.
Yet self-effacement and excessive self-display both bear witness to the same questioning of the poet’s place in the world beyond the boundaries of art. To ask “who is speaking” in the poem entails questions of value and legitimacy: on what grounds, from which
position, with what right the poet speaks. If the poet no longer has a clear social or symbolic role, he may remove himself from the poem under the pretext that his particular existence has no relevance, or he may decide to exploit the indeterminacy of his status to play all the roles he desires: magus, oracle, soldier, pariah, etc. Jacob, Apollinaire et Cendrars opt for this masquerade that manifests at once an anxiety – does the poet no
longer have a role to play? – and an aspiration: to become universal, to speak at last for all humankind by becoming each individual in turn.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alexander Robert Dicko
Certified Circular: Implementing the Ethical Circular Economy on Campus
No full textabstract: In this paper, our Founders Lab team members — Jacob Benevento, Sydney Evans, and Alec Whiteley — recount the year-long entrepreneurial journey that led to the creation and launch of our venture, Certified Circular. Certified Circular is a program that certifies on-campus events for implementing circular practices into their activities as well as off-campus businesses. The venture was formed in response to our group’s propelling question and industry selection, which called on us to create and market a venture within the ethical circular economy. (abstract
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
Contributors
No full textFlora Kimmich translates from French and German. Her translation of Gustav Droysen’s monumental nineteenth-century classic History of Alexander the Great [Geschichte Alexanders des Grossen]—the first into English—was published in 2012 by the American Philosophical Society. Lionel Gossman, M. Taylor Pyne Professor emeritus of Romance Languages at Princeton University, is the author of books on Edward Gibbon, Augustin Thierry, Jacob Burckhardt, J.J. Bachofen, and the eighteenth-century French m..
Incubation behavior, embryonic heart rate, and developmental variation within and among altricial bird species
No full textThe incubation period of an egg is a critical stage that has multiple implications in subsequent life stages, therefore understanding the processes within the egg during the incubation period are important for a broader understanding of avian development and life history strategies. I examined embryonic heart rate (EHR) within 14 sympatrically breeding grassland and shrubland bird species in east-central Illinois from April to August of 2019 and 2020. Specifically, I aimed to investigate 1) the factors that impact EHR across species, 2) how parental incubation behaviors impact EHR, 3) rates of hatching failure across species, and 4) the factors that drive variation in hatching failure across species.
EHR was positively related to both the age of the embryo, as well as egg temperature. Additionally, EHR increased as the breeding season progressed and was negatively associated with clutch size. The EHR across the incubation period were similar across focal species, however, the two cavity nesting species, Eastern Bluebirds (Sialis sialis) and Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), exhibited lower EHR than the other species, while Dickcissels (Spiza americana) exhibited higher EHR than other species. Eastern Bluebirds also displayed greater nest temperature variation and a lower percent of time on the nest.
Hatching failure was more common in cavity nesting species and nests with greater clutch sizes. A majority of embryonic death occurred before or shortly after the onset of incubation. The high rates of embryonic death in large clutches and early stages suggest the rates of mortality may be due to the delayed onset of incubation or the inability of females to adequately incubate large clutches. Overall, differences in life-history strategies across species may lead to differences in EHR and hatching failure.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Alexander Di Giovanni, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-30 at 12:06.The student, Alexander Di Giovanni, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-30 at 12:14.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-30 at 16:14.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16626 on 2021-09-16 at 17:06:59Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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